While others have been accused of using the anti-Trump "Resistance" to line their own pockets, the Krassensteins have a documented history of involvement with shady internet get-rich-quick schemes-a history that one federal financial investigator had reason to believe amounted to a criminal conspiracy.
"There's a lot of money to be made," says Nomiki Konst, a progressive activist and journalist, in building up the sorts of online followings enjoyed by the Krassenstein brothers.
Long before they took up the #Resistance mantle, the Krassensteins began hawking dubious investment advice-way back in 2003-on a pair of internet forums, selling ads to online money-making operations that included a number of apparent scams, including some run by people later convicted on charges ranging from fraud to capital murder.
According to prosecutors, the services the Krassensteins promoted on their websites duped thousands of "Investors" into funding Ponzi scheme-type scams and even resulted in some downloading a virus that emptied their accounts on an anonymous online-payment platform used by the Krassensteins themselves, before it was shut down as part of a major federal money-laundering investigation.
Ed Krassenstein claimed their sites "Never allowed ads to anything that was a scam." But Adams identified a sampling of five apparent Ponzi schemes advertised as HYIPs on TalkGold.
Asked whether the brothers felt any remorse, putting aside issues of legal culpability, for TalkGold users who were apparently scammed, Ed Krassenstein wrote, "There is no remorse to be felt. Our sites saved thousands of people money by providing a venue for users to warn others of scams."
"What we didn't do is knowingly sell banner ads to companies which were scams." Ed Krassenstein has since stated unequivocally that the brothers did not engage in any "Questionable marketing schemes."
https://amp.thedailybeast.com/feds-seized-a-fortune-from-resistance-icons-accused-of-boosting-online-ponzi-schemes?__twitter_impression=true
"There's a lot of money to be made," says Nomiki Konst, a progressive activist and journalist, in building up the sorts of online followings enjoyed by the Krassenstein brothers.
Long before they took up the #Resistance mantle, the Krassensteins began hawking dubious investment advice-way back in 2003-on a pair of internet forums, selling ads to online money-making operations that included a number of apparent scams, including some run by people later convicted on charges ranging from fraud to capital murder.
According to prosecutors, the services the Krassensteins promoted on their websites duped thousands of "Investors" into funding Ponzi scheme-type scams and even resulted in some downloading a virus that emptied their accounts on an anonymous online-payment platform used by the Krassensteins themselves, before it was shut down as part of a major federal money-laundering investigation.
Ed Krassenstein claimed their sites "Never allowed ads to anything that was a scam." But Adams identified a sampling of five apparent Ponzi schemes advertised as HYIPs on TalkGold.
Asked whether the brothers felt any remorse, putting aside issues of legal culpability, for TalkGold users who were apparently scammed, Ed Krassenstein wrote, "There is no remorse to be felt. Our sites saved thousands of people money by providing a venue for users to warn others of scams."
"What we didn't do is knowingly sell banner ads to companies which were scams." Ed Krassenstein has since stated unequivocally that the brothers did not engage in any "Questionable marketing schemes."
https://amp.thedailybeast.com/feds-seized-a-fortune-from-resistance-icons-accused-of-boosting-online-ponzi-schemes?__twitter_impression=true
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